Posted on 04/08/2021 6:07:23 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten, who leads the nation’s most powerful teachers’ union, has a message for fellow Jews: they should not criticize the unions, because they are part of America’s “ownership class.”
Weingarten’s comment, which invoked a stereotype of wealthy Jews commonly viewed as antisemitic, came during a recent interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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Oh, it's been going on for a while. And of course Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib are openly brazenly anti-Semitic.
Read Marx, it has a meaning. Whether you own a deli or a taco stand you're part of it, exploiting the surplus value of labor.
Thanks, I had just started with my morning coffee,and I got really confused reading about “Ownership Class”.
“‘they should not criticize the unions, because they are part of America’s “ownership class.”’
Just based on wealth and power, Jews certainly are a very large part of “America’s ownership class,” if those words even have any meaning (debatable). Why does that remove the right to criticize the unions? What is that crazy uglo-American talking about? That doesn’t make any sense. An “ownership class” would seem to be a group that might have a lot to say about unions. This is just Leftist mumbo jumbo.
American Jews overwhelmingly support Democrats...no matter what. I support Israel but not the majority of American Jews.
Next she will calling Jews “politically unreliable” or “rootless cosmopolitans” or “bourgeoisie parasites”
Note my post 23. It has a meaning. Substitute bourgeoisie for ownership class and proletariat for working class not just the meaning but her mindset would be clear. Too clear, thus ownership class to avoid the Marxist implication. I’m sure she includes landlords and petty bourgeoisie in ownership class.
The failure, greed, selfishness, crazy demands of teachers and unions for 100% safety has been a PR nightmare for them. Public disgust with them is peaking.
I looked. Did she used to be a man?
But Jean Paul Sartre in his essay on anti-Semitism assured us that only the bourgeoisie have anti-Semitic sentiments, the workers being better than that or something. I stopped reading at that point. What a moron. Stupid French get everything wrong.
Not just whites. Who’s killed more blacks in the past decade? White racist cops, or BLM? Only one guess.
Not quite Helen Thomas, but she’s up there. Miss Hideous America.
And the Dems unable to even issue a pro forma condemnation.
Teaching in the NYC public schools used to be a very popular profession among NYC Jews, especially the Orthodox. They were teachers, special ed teachers, guidance counselors, speech therapists—they filled all kind of professional slots in the school system. Then came along the “diversity” wave: principals had to be minority, there had to be more minority teachers because black kids were incapable of learning from white teachers doncha know, there had to be bilingual teachers for the illegals, etc. Jewish teachers, with their conservative values, were then harassed by administration to get them out to make room for more black and Hispanic teachers (even if they could barely speak English or were otherwise poorly prepared) and now, you rarely see Jews in NYC classrooms. And see what has happened—there are no standards either in discipline or academics, and the giant cesspool the NYC school system has become is the result. I watched it happen from the inside.
I’m resisting a strong temptation to call out an anti-Semitic implication in your post, but I will say this: you are wrong. Trust me when I say that I know my fellow Jews (or JINOS) on the left: they are true believers, red diaper doper babies going back to FDR. Its not the money, its their true religion: Liberalism.
That will teach you not to listen.
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